Beeseek goes in the net

Fri, 10/12/2007 - 18:54 — Jak-o

A new decision has been recently made on Developers Team's Mailing List: the browser extension for Beeseek will be no more! Andrea Corbellini, on 5th october, after a virtual meeting with SABDFL Simone Brunozzi, proposed to trash firefox extension to avoid a futile proliferation of browser plugins, choosing instead a web application.

Trash Firefox Extension
There is nothing against Firefox :-)

Here the main advantages in having a web application:

it stays in the server, so there is no need to install something, granting the use to more people

we can follow users' actions better, the web application can in fact also use sockets, because it's in python

it's harder to compromise data, because the configuration file is not accessible to users; this is not possible with a firefox extension.

Beeseekers will not be worried about any spyware in their PCs

Firefox is not the only browser, mantaining the various plugins would have been a tote, this way instead developers can focus on a single piece of software.